Steve McConnell Microsoft Press, Paperback, Published October 1997, 288 pages, ISBN 1572316217
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How to make sure your next important project isn't your last.

Equip yourself with SOFTWARE PROJECT SURVIVAL GUIDE. It's for everyone with a stake in the outcome of a development project—and especially for those without formal software project management training. That includes top managers, executives, clients, investors, end-user representatives, project managers, and technical leads.

Here you'll find guidance from the acclaimed author of the classics CODE COMPLETE and RAPID DEVELOPMENT. Steve McConnell draws on solid research and a career's worth of hard-won experience to map the surest path to your goal—what he calls "one specific approach to software development that works pretty well most of the time for most projects." Nineteen chapters in four sections cover the concepts and strategies you need for mastering the development process, including planning, design, management, quality assurance, testing, and archiving. For newcomers and seasoned project managers alike, SOFTWARE PROJECT SURVIVAL GUIDE draws on a vast store of techniques to create an elegantly simplified and reliable framework for project management success.

So don't worry about wandering among complex sets of project management techniques that require years to sort out and master. SOFTWARE PROJECT SURVIVAL GUIDE goes straight to the heart of the matter to help your projects succeed. And that makes it a required addition to every professional's bookshelf.

Table of Contents

I The Survival Mind-Set

1 Welcome to Software Project Survival Training

2 Software Project Survival Test

3 Survival Concepts

4 Survival Skills

5 The Successful Project at a Glance

II Survival Preparations

6 Hitting a Moving Target

7 Preliminary Planning

8 Requirements Development

9 Quality Assurance

10 Architecture

11 Final Preparations

III Succeeding by Stages

12 Beginning-of-Stage Planning

13 Detailed Design

14 Construction

15 System Testing

16 Software Release

17 End-of-Stage Wrap-Up

IV Mission Accomplished

18 Project History

19 Survival Crib Notes

Epilogue

Notes

Glossary

Index

About the Author

Steve McConnell is a consultant to software-intensive companies in the Puget Sound area, including Microsoft. His primary focus has been on the development of mass-distribution commercial microcomputer software. In addition to more theoretical projects such as RAPID DEVELOPMENT and CODE COMPLETE, he has personally written more than 50,000 lines of production code in the last five years. McConnell earned a bachelor’s degree from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, and a master’s degree in software engineering from Seattle University. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM.

Oct 11, 2000     Javier Campoamor (javier@campoamor.net) from Madrid, Spain
The good things, if brief, twice good (Spanish proverb)
A good book that is useful for people that, like me, has to start to manage projects. After some introductory chapters, it starts to describe the software management process and to introduce useful tips & tools. The book website has also a lot of information about the techniques and tools described in the book.

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